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Well There‘s Your Problem

Bonus Episode 28 PREVIEW: Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

Well There‘s Your Problem

WTYP is Justin Roczniak, November Kelly, Liam McAnderson, and friends.

Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

it's an episode about Gerard Butler's character "Plane" in the movie "Plane" (2023) (Dir. Jean-François Richet) full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/77748575

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0:00.0

Germany after the war they tried several times to make their own fighter aircraft

0:04.0

And they ended up in the end mostly either just buying ones from us the US or building ones with other Europeans

0:09.3

But this was one of the things that went up against the F-104

0:12.3

It's the Heinkl H-31 Florett, which I think is some kind of sword

0:17.9

like a saber

0:19.4

and

0:20.7

And I love it because it's like it's like a West German MIG-21 with a bit of

0:25.9

Freedom fighter in it big pointy intake on the front and it's like they decide this in like the late 50s

0:32.8

And this was their idea like well, we could make a domestic one this is the last time Heinkl would try to make a fighter aircraft

0:39.4

I'm torn right because on the one hand, I'm like this looks pretty good on the other

0:43.8

I'm like, yeah, this is what the super arse fight is look like in the 60s if the Nazis won the war like

0:50.0

Well, I actually I threw this in the

0:53.7

The the I'm sure like at least half of the list isn't we failure with the the new order mod for hearts of iron for

1:00.3

Which is basically cold war with the Nazis and Japanese and whatever if they'd won and I actually threw this in their discord being like

1:07.7

Hey, this would be better than whatever you have in the tech tree for the 60s for a German fighter

1:11.7

And I never got a reply and then I checked the game after the mod after the most recent hotfix

1:16.4

And guess what they have in the 60s slot for German fighters now

1:20.0

Credit developer

1:22.0

Yeah, well, you know what it whatever. I'm happy where they went with it

1:26.1

But but I don't feel too bad for Heinkl because they ended up licensed building the 404 for for Lockheed and West Germany

1:32.8

And they would also end up being but absorbing the Airbus

1:36.8

Yeah, it's cool. How have you look up the constituent parts of Airbus? It's like

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